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Debbie Harry

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Debbie Harry

b. 1945

American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1945)

Postwar

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Key Dates

Birth

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Biography

Deborah Ann Harry is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie. Four of her songs with the band reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 between 1979 and 1981.

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Timeline

1945
Birth

American singer, songwriter and actress (Blondie and The Wind in the Willows)

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